Deep-Seated Fears

This poster is currently all over London Underground, advertising a new exhibition at the London Science Museum. And it gives me the creeps every time I see it.

Why? Because since childhood, images of distorted or featureless faces have freaked me out. My favourite programme, as a child, was the original "Bionic Woman" series, with Lindsay Wagner (anyone remember that?). But one of the bionic woman's recurring foes were the Fembots – female robots who looked human until their face masks...